江苏自学考试英语本科《泛读三》学习笔记

4、Why would a man sentenced to prison probably feel this punishment redoubled if a woman judge sentenced him under a law drafted by a woman legislator? What is the root cause of such a reaction?

Because women’s social status is inferior. Sex discrimination. 翻译

1、Viewing the true sate of women in modern society from a fresh angle, the author tries to convince us that the true emancipation of women means that someday, men and women will make a free choice to say home or go to work without being affected by the social climate. T: 从一个全新的角度来看妇女在现代社会中的真实地位，作者尽力使我们信服这样的观点：真正的解放意味着在某一天，女性和男性一样将有自由选择是呆在家里还是西湖区工作的权利。这种权利将不再会受到社会的影响。

2、There are no laws and very little discrimination to prevent western, industrialized women from voting, being voted for or entering the professions. If there are still comparatively few women lawyers and engineers, let alone women presidents of the United States, what are women to conclude except that this is the result either of their own free choice or of something inherent in female nature?

T: 几乎没有相关法律和决议阻挠西方工业社会的妇女进行投票，为她们进入工作领域进行投票。如果仍然有相对较少的女律师和女工程师，更不用说美国女总统了，除了说这既是她们自己民主的选择又是她们天生与生俱来的事情外还能得出什么结论呢？

3、A society as adept as ours has become at propaganda—whether political or commercial—should know that ―persuasion,‖ which means the art of launching myths and artificially inducing inhibitions, is every bit as effective as force of law.

T: 一个社会应该像我们熟悉传道总会一样—不管是商业的还是政治的—应当知道“说服力”创造神话和假惺惺的制造禁令的艺术，就像法律的势力一样行之有效。

4、Modern society, like the modern zoo, has contrived to get rid of the bars without altering the fact of imprisonment.

T: 现代社会，就如同是现代的动物园，设法摆脱栅栏而没有改变监禁的现在。 5、This is an argument without a flaw: except that it is addressed exclusively to women. Address it to both sexes and instantly it becomes progressive and humane. As it stands, it is merely anti-women prejudice revamped.

T: 这是一种无可挑剔的观点：除非它是专门针对女性的。如果它是针对两性的，那么它就是进步的和仁慈的。而现在它坚持的，只是一种修正过的妇女偏见。

6、All the home-making talent which happens to be born inside male bodies is wasted; and our businesses and governments are staffed quite largely by people whose aptitude for the work consists solely of their being what is, by tradition, the right sex for it.

T: 所有男性与生俱来的持家的天分被浪费掉了；我们商业和政府很大一部分比例的成员是由被社会传统所承认的天生适合的性别来充当的。

7、So brilliantly has society contrived to terrorize women with this threat that certain behavior is unnatural and unwomanly that it has left them no time to consider—or even sheerly observe—what womanly nature really is.

T: 社会用如此手段来图谋威胁女性，以至于一些行为是不自然的，没有女性气质的，她没有留给她们考虑的时间—甚至完全的观察—女性的真正的天性是什么。

8、Not only are the distinctions we draw between male nature and female nature largely arbitrary and often pure superstition: they are completely beside the point.

T: 我们得出的男性和女性之间的差别不仅是随意的而且也是纯粹的迷信：它们完全不在这点上。

9、Logic and art are not natural or instinctive activities; but our nature includes a propensity to acquire them..

T: 逻辑学和艺术不是自然的而是本能的行为；但是我们的天性中包括一种获得它们的倾向。 10、If modern civilization has invented methods education which make it possible for men to feed babies and for women to think logically, we are betraying civilization itself if we do not set both sexes free to make a free choice.

T: 如果现代的文明已经发现了使男性照看小孩使女性做出自由的选择的话，那我们就还没有达到真正的文明。 11、The pressure society exerts to drive men out of the house is very nearly as irrational and unjust as those by which it keeps women in. The mistake of the early reformers was to assume that men were emancipated already and that therefore reform need ask only for the emancipation of women. What we ought to do now is go right back to scratch and demand the emancipation of both sexes. It is only because men are not free themselves that they have found it necessary to cheat women by the deception which makes them appear free when they are not.

T: 社会压力迫使男性走出家庭就如同它将妇女束缚在家里一样的不合理、不公平。早期改革的错误就在于一开始假定男性已经得到解放，因而改革必须还做到妇女的解放。现在我们应该做的就是联合起来请求男女都得到解放。这仅仅是因为男性觉得他们还不够自由，所以，他们就通过骗局来欺骗那些还没得到自由但是看起来似乎是得到自由的妇女们. Unit 8 Welcome to Cyberia Text A 词汇

real-time：即时的 implicit：隐含

fabulous：难以置信的 delirious：令人激动的 by and large: in general lurking：隐藏 foot the bill 买单 repository：仓库 among other things：以及其他 scrolling：展开 crack whiz：高手 obsession：困扰

rigorous and stringent：自律 pertaining to: relating to 与…有关 neophyte: novice 新手 catchall：包含一切 conscientious: cautious 谨慎的 enlightened：开明的 entail: weed browse：浏览

forums: 讨论会 wade through：费力前进

turned in, turned on and geeked out：(the net user) began to accept the Internet, loved it, and then could not live without it. 句子释义

1、As surely as the Department of Defense started this whole thing, AT&T or Ted Turner is going to end up running it.

A: We know for a fact that the Department of Defense started the Internet. We are also sure that some business companies will ultimately take over the management of the Internet. 2、Exercising choice is J.Individual’s God-given right as an American.

A: As an American citizen, J.Individual has the inalienable right to make a choice, to decide for himself or herself.

3、The“shelf life”of a given post is no more than four weeks.

A: A certain post will be kept in the forum for no more than four weeks on average and then it will be deleted.

4、which obviously has a number of intellectually negative implications.

A: The short length makes it almost impossible for the post to have meaningful contents. 5、J. Individual has settled into an electronic suburb.

A: J. Individual soon settled down in a discussion forum that attracts fairly well-to-do people just like him and will not venture on the Internet any further. 问答

1、What kind of services can computer network offer the user?

Computer bulletin board services offer up the glories of e-mail, the thought-provocation of newsgroups, the sharing of ideas implicit in public posting, and the interaction of real-time chats. 2、What is the author’s attitude toward people’s fascination with the infinite possibilities for communication on the Internet?

Will J. Individual actually meet new people, go to new places, and discuss new ideas? Why or why not?

3、Who started the Internet? And ultimately, who will run the Internet?

As surely as the Department of Defense started this whole thing., AT&T or Ted Turner is going to end up running it. 翻译 1、M. Kadi, however, debunks the openness and diversity in cyberspace because, with limited time, money and energy, the average individual can only be localized to the topics he/ she is familiar with and contact those with whom he/ she shares similar views and experiences instead of reaching out to any unfamiliar topics or any other people of quite different ways of living.

T: M. Kadi揭示了子网络世界种的公开化和多样性，因为，用有限的时间，金钱和精力，平均每一个人只能局限于他或她熟悉的话题，接触那些与他或她观点和经历相同的人，而不涉猎其他的他们不熟悉的话题和与他们生活方式完全不同的人。

2、As surely as the Department of Defense started this whole thing., AT&T or Ted Turner is going to end up running it, so I don’t think it’s too unrealistic to take a look at the Net as it exists in its commercial form in order to expose some of the realities lurking behind the regurgitated media rhetoric and the religious fanaticism of her junkies.

T: 国防部首先发起了这件事情，美国电话电报公司或特德．特纳将要停办它，所以我认为，关注网络是并不是不切实际的，就像是它在商业中的存在说哦为了要揭露那些隐藏在花言巧语的媒体背后和沉溺与网络的人们的现实。

3、In case you think 30 hours a month is an outrageous estimate, think of it in terms of television. T: 如果你觉得一个月30个小时的估计不不太可能的，那就用电视来进行一个比较。

4、Let’s be truthful here, 30 hours a month ignores shareware downloads, computer illiteracy, real –time chatting, interactive game playing, and serious forum following, which by nature entail a significant amount of scrolling and / or downloading time.

T: 相信吧，30个小时一个月还忽略了共享文件的下载，电脑盲们，实际时间的聊天，互动游戏和论坛，这些就占用了大把大把的有意义的时间。

5、You may want to join the on-line revolution, but obviously you can’t wade through everything that’s being discussed-you, which folders to browse.

T: 你可能很想加入在线的这场革命，但是，显然你不可能涉猎到每一个讨论—你得选择你

所感兴趣的话题，你感兴趣浏览的论坛。

6、Something the posting is so frequent that the ―shell life‖ of a given post is no more than four weeks.

T: 有时候，帖子更新太迅速，有效期限还不超过4个星期。 Unit 9 Walden Text A 词汇

nimble: acute 敏锐 petulantly: offensively 坏脾气 game: energetic 热火朝天 strewn with: scatter 散落一地 lurch: sway 倾斜 frail: weak

impetuous: rash 冲动 undulate: moving in waves 随波起伏 have the upper hand: advantage snooping：窥视

pertinence：相关 a smattering of: a few of lose ground: no longer popular extract：拿起 dearly：昂贵的 grossness：粗俗 grimly：狰狞地 induce ：导致 rouse: awaken 惊醒 cryptic：神秘的 delight：吸收 degenerate：堕落 odd: strange savagery：荒蛮 departed：已逝去的 at pains to：努力做

inauspicious：不幸的 soothe: comfortable 安抚

make of with：顺手牵羊 attended to: apply itself to 导致 flush：惊起了 convoy：护送

indistinct：模糊了 imbibe：吸收 at length: finally 详细 intervene：干涉

deliberately: on purpose 有意的 solitude：独处 congeniality: pleasantness 亲切的 句子释义

1、That is a high speed at which to hols a philosopher in one’s mind, but in this century we are a nimble bunch.

A: Driving at a high speed is not a good occasion for philosophic thinking and meditation, but in 20th century we have to be accustomed to thinking while moving fast in driving or in our daily life. 2、Its intestinal yearning for the other side of the road world loses ground.

A: The turtle’s desire to reach the other side of the road was spoiled when the cars ran over it and squashed its intestines.

3、They reveal a meanness and grossness in my nature which you would find contemptible.

A: E.B White had to buy shoes and pay for the hotel room and food. Thoreau would probably consider it petty and vulgar to spend money on such unnecessary items and thus would probably look down upon the author. 问答

1、main idea: In the following essay, selected from White’s One Man’s Meat, written after a visit to Walden Pond where Thoreau had lived nearly a hundred years before, E.B. White shows his pious tribute to Thoreau, describes the natural scene on his way to Walden and makes a personal comment on modern society.